22 PERIOD FOLLOWING THE TREATIES. 



following the celebration of those treaties, and 



clear evidence of this is furnished by the case of 



Case <>f the Lo- f] ie Loriot, cited at pp. 79 to 83 of the British 



not. l l 



Case. Deeming this incident only indirectly 

 relevant to the question of right in and about 

 Bering Sea, the United States dismissed it in 

 their Case with a very brief mention i 1 but the 

 importance given it by the British Government 

 now requires a more complete statement of the 

 facts and issues involved. 



The treaty of 1824 granted for a term of ten 

 years certain trading privileges upon the coast 

 between Yakutat Bay and latitude 54° 40' north. 2 

 On May 19, 1835, the United States were noti- 

 fied by the Russian Minister that 'the privileges 

 had come to an end and that the captains of two 

 American vessels at Sitka had been requested to 

 take notice of this fact. The United States there- 

 upon initiated strenuous efforts to obtain a re- 

 newal of the privileges in question, and while 

 doing so news was received of the seizure by the 

 Russians of the Loriot, an American vessel, for 

 trading upon the Northwest Coast, in latitude 54° 

 55' north, i. e., just above the southernmost limit 

 referred to in the treaty of 1824. 



1 Case of the United States, p. 59. 



2 Case of the United States, p. 58. 



